FGM

UHURU & NATALIA: To win FGM war, we must listen to and support youth

Reading Time: 3 minutes By President Uhuru Kenyatta and UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund, Natalia Kanem        […]

Join anti-Female Genital Mutilation fight, locals urged

Reading Time: 2 minutes Residents in Tharaka Nithi county have been urged to join in efforts to fight Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) which is […]

Hero teacher shelters girls from FGM, early marriages

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Lilian Kaivilu James Lokuk patrols Morpus Primary School compound in West Pokot County. It is a cloudy afternoon and […]

Call for Kenyans to discard outdated cultural practices

Reading Time: 3 minutes Mabel Keya-Shikuku and Kevin Bogita KNA Stakeholders in Narok have launched a helpline to help girls in distress to report […]

Huge leap, but Kenyan women have to wait longer to fully enjoy rights

Reading Time: 6 minutes Tomorrow marks the first day of the International Conference on Population and Development, held 25 years after the first ever […]

Elders, religious leaders commit to end FGM practice by 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Community elders and religious leaders from across the country today made a commitment to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in […]

On a mission to elevate Africa’s young people

Reading Time: 3 minutes Famously known as the first man of the Akorino faith to work with World Bank, Dr David Wachira is giving […]

Activists raise alarm over rising cases of child FGM

Reading Time: < 1 minute Anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) activists have raised the alarm over an emerging trend, in which the vice is perpetrated against […]